Posted on April 23, 2008 at 2:27 pm | 
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WebAnywhere is a new screen reader (text-to-speech software) on the horizon. Available May 2008, this screen reader will be free. Like the name it can be accessed on any PC meaning it will provide more freedom and access to information for people who depend on such software. All they will need is access to a PC with a sound card, just as you might check your email on a friends PC or one at work or collage.
To avail of it you simply execute some keyboard commands to open the WebAnywhere home page and away you go.
WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card.
Since this is a Web based application chances are it will support mobile phones but we’ll have to wait until its released to test that.
Below is a video demonstration of someone using WebAnywhere to check their email, project deadline and the bus time table.
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April 24, 2008 @ 
dc crowley
This is a really great development. Amazing nobody ever thought of this solution before